ST. JAMES THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 143, 19 June 1941, Page 12

ST. JAMES THEATRE.

"The Invisible Woman."

Intended to outshine the amazing tricks of its forerunners,' Universal's "The Invisible Woman" opens tomqrr, row at the St. James Theatre, with Virginia Bruce/. John Barry more, John Howard, Charlie Ruggles, and Oscar Homolka in starring roles. Produced by the same studio which first startled film audiences with "The Invisible Man" in 1933 and "The Invisible Man Returns" in 1939, the new film is the first to employ these trick effects for comedy purposes. The story presents Barrymore as an eccentric professor who discovers a formula for human invisibility. Miss Bruce, as a discouraged dress model, offers herself as subject for the scientist's experiments, which prove completely successful. Thereupon Miss Bruce employs her invisibility to gain revenge on an abusive employer, to'torment a young playboy and his befuddled butler with her invisible pranks, and even to round up a gangster mob in a hilarious sequence. Howard appears as the playboy who finances the professor's experiments, and who takes an immediate dislike to the Invisible Woman because of her playful nature. He changes his mind, however, when she materialises and he finds that the Invisible Woman is actually a beautiful lady.